2009/8/11 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:
> It's nice. I am playing with it, and now I found some potential issue.
> The parser is maybe too tolerant:
>
> postgres=# select to_char(3.14323,'9.9(aaaaaEEEE');
> to_char
> ----------
> 3.1e+00
> (1 row)
>
I guess we *could* add code to throw an error where the 9's aren't
placed immediately before the E's in the format pattern, but to be
honest I can't work up any enthusiasm about it.
Cheers,
BJ